November 28th
Sarah’s Entry
Up early after a turbulent night sleep. Edited yesterdays pics before heading up to the spa to weighin. Not as bad as I feard. Off to grab some oj to make some mimosas in our room. Grabbed breakfast at Cadillac Diner which was yummy. The service was very friendly but the food itself took awhile.
We made a stop at the desk again to make our reservations for the week. Italian on Monday, Bistro on Thursday and murder mystery on Tuesday.
Off the ship by 8:28 and in our rental car by 9:00. The car which is a convertible, yippee!! Dereks first time in one, we’ll see how he likes it. Off to Haleakala crater. Arrived at visitor center @ 9:54
Made it to summit where the cloud cover was too heavy tto really see. Come to find out clouds are really cold! No hiking the trails for us.
Off to find the only winery in Hawaii…Come to find out there is a winery on the big island too, oops.
The rain seems to be following us down the volcano.
The winery was okay, we picked up one bottle to take back, we’ll see if it gets confiscated.
The real find was the Ulupalakua Ranch store. We split a Maui grown elk burger. It was delish w/Maui onions on it.
Next stop Surfing goat Dairy. The dairy was ok. We didn’t realize they were closing at 2:00 so we just grabbed a garlic herb chees and crackers. We found it shaved 30 minutes off our drive time by cutting across the island through the sugar cane fields.
Landed at Hilo Hatties and it was as big a tourist trap as was to be expected. By then my lower back was inflamed and it was hard to concentrate on finding Derek a new aloha shirt. We ended up picking up Tylenol (I popped four) walking down to the court house and banyan tree. It was amazing.
To further help my back pain we made a stop at Cheeseburger in Paradise and I had a double trouble which was the best pina colada ever.
So we changed in the parking lot of Hilo Hattie’s, put on my face and headed to Feast at Lele, our luau, listening to winter wonderland on the radio.
The feast itself was everything we hoped for. We had front row seats thanks to seasoned prior planning. Ahem ahem. The flow of the food and shw as perfect and the food was so well done, even the leviche we were leary of totally surprised us both.
After a wonderful evening we hopped back in the car put the top down and jammed to the Hawaiian children choir singing the Hawaiian twelve days of Christmas including, poi, missionaries, beer and five golden pigs J
We just barely found a parking spot, we were 80% sure where we parked was ok.
Dropped our stuff in the room, went to the Lanai martini bar for one last drink before bed with benadryl.
Derek’s Entry
Up early to head to Halaekala crater. This was one of the things I was most looking forward to. I was very disappointed that it was cloudy out and we couldn’t keep the top down on the convertible. It was still a fun drive up the mountain into the clouds. Rained most of the day and drove around making a couple of stops for Sarah. Had an awesome elk burger! Parked at the Hilo Hatties parking lot in Lahnai and went down to the courthouse to see the Banyan tree. I had no idea at first what I was looking at, ok a bunch of trees in a park. Nope, it is one tree, it hangs branches down and grows into the ground and reroots itself. Kind of amazing. Got some Tylenol for Sarah’s back and a drink to wash it down. Then off to Feast at Lele.
Feast at Lele was great. I would say it was the best luau I have ever been to, but it is the only one. The food was great and so was the dancing. The drinks were good and I just thoroughly enjoyed it all. We had seats right up front. After leaving the luau we were able to put the top down for the drive back to the ship. Got the last parking spot by the ship and headed up to Lanai bar for a martini and then some benadryl to sleep.
Link to all photos from Maui day 1
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